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10 October 2010
John the Video Man Reports
2 of 2 found this helpful This deck is an essential component of my video production. I now have three of them. Too bad Panasonic does not still make this deck. I have seen these decks sell on eBay for $900. Over three times their retail price.
I have received good out-of-warranty repair service from Panasonic. The biggest problem that I have for this deck is the DVD burner. They don't seem to last very long. They sound like a sick cow, when they go bad.
The Panasonic engineers who designed some of the features needed some user focus group assistance. The memory for a phrase is far shorter than the possible phase length. I have to save phrases in segments and splice together. Oh, well.
Of course the internal TV tuner is analog, which in the digital TV world, makes them less than fully useful as was intended.
My work flow is to copy video the the deck's internal hard drive, trim and label the segment, and then use high speed copy (3 min or less) to make a DVD. Neat feature.